Native Writers and Canadian WritingWilliam Herbert New, William H. New Native Writers and Canadian Writing is a co-publication with Canadian Literature - Canada's foremost literary journal - of a special double issue which focuses on literature by and about Canada's Native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both Native and non-Native writers. These not only reflect the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing but also direct the reader to the traditional literature from which it springs and which has been largely misunderstood by the non-Native community - myths, rituals, and songs having been interpreted more often as artistic "curiosities" rather than the masterworks of a different culture. Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature touch on works which range from the eighteenth-century journals of explorer Alexander Mackenzie, to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, and to early writers in Canada such as historian-humourist Thomas Chandler Haliburton. |
Contents
Learning to Listen | 4 |
BASIL H JOHNSTON | 10 |
ROBIN MCGRATH | 19 |
ROBERT BRINGHURST | 32 |
PARKER DUCHEMIN | 49 |
MARY LU MACDONALD | 92 |
ALANNA KATHLEEN BROWN | 113 |
RITA | 122 |
BRUCE CHESTER | 181 |
BARBARA GODARD | 183 |
CELIA HAIGBROWN | 229 |
MARGARET ATWOOD | 243 |
DENIS W JOHNSTON | 254 |
VICTORIA FREEMAN | 266 |
ALOOTOOK IPELLIE | 267 |
ROBIN RIDINGTON | 273 |
AGNES GRANT | 124 |
EMMA LAROCQUE | 132 |
MINGWÔN MINGWÔN SHIRLEY BEAR | 133 |
WAYNE KEON | 153 |
Yin Chin | 156 |
MARGERY | 168 |
MINGWON MINGWÔN SHIRLEY BEAR | 290 |
BASIL H JOHNSTON | 291 |
JOAN CRATE | 300 |
GARY BOIRE | 301 |
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Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature Special Issue William Herbert New No preview available - 1990 |
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